Who better to lay down a blistering thrash metal assault in this day and age than the Swede's themselves? Trained in the dark arts from the back catalogue of the great's like Slayer and At The Gates - yet possessing a modern edge ala groups like The Haunted and In Flames; Carnal Forge's fourth offering still finds the band at the top of their game and thirsty for bloodshed.

An unrelenting assault of speedy riffs that relish in the treble heavy crunch of the early 90's Bay Area scene, this album finds technical wizardry being shot out of a cannon as breakneck guitar work collides with hammering beats and undeniably evil vocals. In fact, this album is probably flush with enough visceral lyrical content to make a priest vomit blood, proving that the band have no problem painting a disturbingly grim picture that will energize as much as it will obliterate anything in it's path. To be certain though, "The More You Suffer" isn't some hokey album designed to make one dress up in corpse paint and recite incantations. Instead it is an utterly pummeling affair that represents both its death and thrash metal influences traditionally and defiantly enough to suggest that even old school metal heads might want to wave their bloodied flag of savagery for all to see.

Thankfully enough this groove ridden violence is fully punctuated with strong production that avoids the lo-fi approach entirely to unleash an all encompassing metallic blitzkrieg. With that said though, while listening to this record one still can't help but feel almost nostalgic as the breakdowns and scant few melodic directions that the band take ultimately bring to mind classic moments from "Seasons In The Abyss" and more. Sure, with this tried and tested lethality in place the band will easily bowl over audiences with their familiarity, but their lack of new ground broken is indeed a dangerous hurdle to overcome. All things considered, there is no doubt that this album will sate the thirst for immediate brutality, but its reliance on standard practices also pose risk of it being easily forgotten in a few years time.